About Drainspot

Drainspot is a Mac app that tells MacBook owners what drains their battery, in plain words, and whether that's normal for their Mac.

Why it exists

macOS shows pieces of the answer in different places: Energy Impact in Activity Monitor, wake reasons in a Terminal log, battery health in System Settings. None of them keeps a record over days, and none says whether today was unusual. Drainspot puts those pieces together and keeps the history, so “my battery died early” turns into a specific cause.

How it works

• A small background recorder reads the battery every minute: charge, power in watts, the charger, temperature, and the apps using energy.
• It records sleep and wake, so it can say what happened overnight.
• It compares each day and night with what's usual for that Mac, and explains the difference in plain words.
• Battery health, maximum capacity and cycle count are tracked over months.

What it doesn't do

• No account, no sign-in, no ads and no analytics. Everything stays in a folder on your Mac (privacy policy).
• It doesn't change your Mac's settings or limit charging; it tells you what's happening and what you can change.
• It doesn't promise a fixed “normal”: every Mac and every day differ, so it compares your Mac with itself.

Who makes it

Drainspot is made by Ziad Elsewedy, an independent developer, in English and Arabic from the first version. It's distributed outside the Mac App Store, signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Facts

• Current version: 1.2.0.
• Requires a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro on macOS 14 or later; Apple silicon gets every reading, Intel the basics.
• Price: free. Drainspot Pro is coming: $4.99 a month or $19.99 once for life, after a 7-day free trial.
• Languages: English and Arabic.
• Contact: support@drainspot.app, or the support page.